Programs for Native Artists

Longhouse Events

In addition to workshops, presentations and performances hosted by the Longhouse, there are several recurring events throughout the year: the annual tribal youth art-making event, Generations Rising, the Fall Community Dinner, and December's Holiday Native Arts Fair.

There are also many public events held in the Longhouse throughout the year, which are hosted by programs, faculty and student groups of The Evergreen State College. For more information on public campus events, view Evergreen's campus calendar.

Thursday, November 30, 2017 at The Longhouse Education and Cultural Center

Workshop at 2 pm and concert at 7 pm

Scatter Their Own is an alter-Native rock husband and wife duo, Scotti Clifford and Julianna Brown-Eyes Clifford. They are Lakota from the Pine Ridge Reservation. Pretty Leaf and The Stardust (Wahpe Clifford and Welby June Clifford) will open the show.

Admission is free! The Longhouse is a drug, alcohol and smoke free environment.

Vendors who are interested in reserving a booth can contact Laura Grabhorn: (360) 867-6413 or grabhorl@evergreen.edu.

Longhouse Carvers Presentation

A panel discussion on the works being made for the coming Fiber Arts Studio—part of the Indigenous Arts Campus at The Evergreen State College! Featuring John Edward Smith (Skokomish), Alex McCarty (Makah), Taylor Krise (Squaxin Island), and special guest carver: Rangi Kipa (Māori)—the 2016 Toi sgʷigʷialʔtxʷ Artist-in-Residence at the Longhouse.

Lyonel Grant is one of Aotearoa's preeminent sculptors. He has designed and carved extraordinary meeting houses such as Te Noho Kotahitanga marae at Unitec Institute of Technology in Auckland, New Zealand. Lyonel will be co-designing, along with Johnpaul Jones, the Longhouse's new Fiber Arts studio which will pay tribute to our long-term relationships with Maori artists and arts organizations.This event was made possible by the generous support of Creative New Zealand and Toi Maori Aotearoa.

2013 Events

Longhouse Holiday Native Arts Fair

Friday, Dec. 13 & Saturday, Dec. 14, 2013

Native Arts and Cultures Foundation Presentation

Saturday, Nov. 23, 2013

Longhouse Community Dinner

Saturday, Nov. 9, 2013

5pm

Free and Open to the Public!

This year we will be honoring two esteemed members of our community with the S3Lhihl Award, "Teaching by Example": Karen Reed (Puyallup and Chinook), Master Weaver, and Florentino "Tiny" Barril (Tlingit), Leader of the Alaska Kuteeyaa Dancers.

Sponsored by the generous support of the Native Arts and Cultures Foundation.

September 28, 2013

Mix It Up!

Support for Artists: A Resources and Services Workshop by the New York Foundation for the Arts (NYFA)

The Evergreen State Longhouse is partnering with The Wing Luke Museum of the Asian Pacific American Experience to offer a workshop for artists at The Wing. The workshop will be led by Maria Villafranca, NYFA Senior Program Officer, to discuss strategies for sustaining your artistic practice including an overview of awards, residencies and opportunities available to individual artists in Washington State and nationwide.

Plateau Collection Project

June 1, 2013

Drum-Making Workshop with Keith Impson (Choctaw)

May 2013

Artist in Residence

Master Inupiaq carver and sculptor, Larry Ahvakana collaborated with Inupiaq artist, Sean Gallagher to build an umiaq at Evergreen's new Carving Studio "Pay3q'ali." The umiaq will be ready to participate in the Tribal Canoe Journey to Bella Bella in the summer of 2014.